Book Review Essay: Looking for the Keys

Arjaliès D. L. Durand R. 2019 “Product categories as judgment devices: The moral awakening of the investment industry.” Organization Science, 30: 885–911.

Barsalou L. W. 1991 “Deriving categories to achieve goals.” In Bower G. H. (ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 27: 1–64. New York: Academic Press.

Berger P. L. Luckmann T. 1966 The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Durand R. Boulongne R. 2017 “Advancing category research: Theoretical mapping and under-researched areas.” In Greenwood R. Oliver C. Lawrence T. B. Meyer R. E. (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism: 647–668. London: Sage.

Durand R. Granqvist N. Tyllström A. 2017 “From categories to categorization: A social perspective on market categorization.” In Durand R. Granqvist N. Tyllström A. (eds.), From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads, vol. 51: Research in the Sociology of Organizations: 3–30. Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight.

Durand R. Khaire M. 2017 “Where do market categories come from and how? Distinguishing category creation from category emergence.”Journal of Management, 43: 87–110.

Durand R. Paolella L. 2013 “Category stretching: Reorienting research on categories in strategy, entrepreneurship, and organization theory.” Journal of Management Studies, 50: 1100–1123.

Glaser V. L. Atkinson M. Krikorian Fiss P. C. 2020 “Goal-based categorization: Dynamic classification in the display advertising industry.” Organization Studies, 41: 921–943.

Glynn M. A. Navis C. 2013 “Categories, identities, and cultural classification: Moving beyond a model of categorical constraint.”Journal of Management Studies, 50: 1124–1137.

Granqvist N. Ritvala T. 2016 “Beyond prototypes: Drivers of market categorization in functional foods and nanotechnology.”Journal of Management Studies, 53: 210–237.

Hannan M. T. Pólos L. Carroll G. R. 2003 “Cascading organizational change.”Organization Science, 14: 463–482.

Hannan M. T. Pólos L. Carroll G. R. 2007 The Logics of Organization Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lashley K. Pollock T. G. 2020 “Waiting to inhale: Reducing stigma in the medical cannabis industry.”Administrative Science Quarterly, 65: 434–482.

Murphy G. L. 2002 The Big Book of Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Paolella L. Durand R. 2016 “Category spanning, evaluation, and performance: Revised theory and test on the corporate law market.”Academy of Management Journal, 59: 330–351.

Smith W. K. Besharov M. L. 2019 “Bowing before dual gods: How structured flexibility sustains organizational hybridity.”Administrative Science Quarterly, 64: 1–44.

Swidler A. 1986 “Culture in action: Symbols and strategies.”American Sociological Review, 51: 273–286.

Syakhroza M. A. Paolella L. Munir K. 2019 “Holier than thou? Identity buffers and adoption of controversial practices in the Islamic banking category.”Academy of Management Journal, 62: 1252–1277.

Wry T. Durand R. 2020 “Reasoning with heuristics: A new approach to categories theory and the evaluation of hybrids.” In Besharov M. Mitzinneck B. (eds.), Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises, vol. 69: 73–91. Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight.

Wry T. Lounsbury M. Jennings P. D. 2014 “Hybrid vigor: Securing venture capital by spanning categories in nanotechnology.” Academy of Management Journal, 57: 1309–1333.

Zhao E. Y. Ishihara M. Jennings P. D. Lounsbury M. 2018 “Optimal distinctiveness in the console video game industry: An exemplar-based model of proto-category evolution.”Organization Science, 29: 588–611.

Zuckerman E. W. 2017 “The categorical imperative revisited: Implications of categorization as a theoretical tool.”Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 51: 31–68.